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| They call me mellow yellow... |
An undercover package film, The Many Adventures… (or should I call it TMAOWTP? That looks like the sound Marvel puts in its word bubbles when the Hulk passes wind) is made up of three previously released short features: Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree from 1966, Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day from 1968, and Winnie The Pooh And Tigger Too from 1974,) with new connecting sequences and a closing section added for the film's release. Any variances in animation in the 11-year span of these films are minimal, displaying an incredible level of consistency from the Disney animators. The only real difference sharp-eared viewers may notice is that the voices of Christopher Robin and Roo change between segments; Christopher Robin is voiced initially by Bruce Reitherman (son of director Wolfgang Reitherman,) and later by Jon Walmsley and Timothy Turner, while Roo is initially voiced by Ron’s little brother and recovering Tranya addict Clint Howard, and later Dori Whitaker (who also voiced the baby rabbit in Robin Hood.)
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| You know, we're not the only ones destroying trees. What about beavers? You call yourself an environmentalist, why don't you go club a few beavers? |
Coming near the end of Disney’s Xerox era (or at least the part of it where you could easily see the telltale scratchiness - that is unless you're watching the overly digitally-noise-reduced Blu-ray ... but I digress,) the movie displays a certain rough-and-ready texture, but here it's entirely fitting for the children’s storybook-styled setting. The voice cast seems to be having a good time with their characters, especially Junius Matthews as the neurotic Rabbit. The affable narration is provided by none other than Bagheera himself (and TV’s Mr. French,) Sebastian Cabot, who often interacts with the characters within the film. And who doesn’t want to try out their own terrible Sterling Holloway impression after listening to his dulcet tones bring the tubby yellow bear to life? As for Tigger vocal performer Paul Winchell – well, I have a bone to pick with him regarding The Aristocats - but we’ll get to that another day…
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| Do you wanna know how I got these scars? |
Speaking of Tigger – man, what a turd. Always full of energy and violently manhandling Pooh against his will, Tigger bursts into people’s homes and sings about himself in the third-person, acting like that old hanger-on friend who gets drunk on boxed wine before showing up at a party you're throwing. Not to say that Pooh is really much better – just look at the way he cheerily invites himself into Rabbit’s home for lunch and promptly eats all his food. Then the fat lard goes and gets himself stuck in the entryway! No one but Rabbit seems too upset about this, like Pooh’s the loveable Biggest Loser contestant who just can’t seem to make any progress. I haven’t seen the 2011 sequel yet, but I’m hoping to see Rabbit set up a honey-scented bear trap inside his hole.
Okay, that was mean - I apologize … silly old bear.
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| Dat ass... |
Unlike the HiddenQueen and others I’ve spoken with, I never really watched this movie growing up – except for the “Heffalumps and Woozles" sequence, which I always saw as part of the Disney’s Halloween Treat television special. While fairly trippy, the song and accompanying visuals can’t really hold a candle to the “Pink Elephants on Parade” segment of Dumbo (or most of Fantasia) in the "WTF" department. However, just recalling it amongst the other spooky sequences from Disney’s Halloween compilation still makes me shiver. As I said though, Pooh wasn't a character I grew up with an affinity for; I never even had a Pooh bear when I was little – I was a Glow Worm man, myself.
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| Hallucinations brought on by Trader Joe's recalled Hunny |
All kidding aside, The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh, like the A.A. Milne stories Disney
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